Thursday, November 1, 2012

Reflections from Father Maletta

Father Maletta on Marriage (2/13/2011 - World Marriage Day)

"Every human being has an innate longing to find that special person.  To find someone that they can share their whole life with.  Someone who will be their partner in this journey of life.  Someone that they can trust and open themselves up to and feel at home with.  That's why so many people get married....

My point of the homily today is very simple: take your marriage seriously.  Take it seriously.  We know already that appoximately 50 percent of marriages end in divorce...

[Divorce is] like a living death.  When you lose someone you love, as horrible as that is, there's closure at least.  You can go to a grave and visit that grave.  When someone divorces you, especially when they find someone else, every time you see that person, every time you have to have contact with that person, it's that hurt and that death all over again...

What shocked me in looking at the latest statistics was this: ...the highest rate of increase in divorce in the United States is those people who have been married for 20 or more years."
Listen to the full homily

There are four stages of marriage: Romance, Disillusionment, Misery and Awakening

Marriage does not follow the Happily Ever After formula portrayed in popular media. Most couples whose marriages end in divorce are often people who never learned the proper tools for a happy marriage and became overwhelmed in disillusionment or misery. Do not lose hope!  Awakening is only a phone call away with Retrouvaille.

Couples in Retrouvaille learn to move from Misery to Awakening with learnable skills, attitudes and tools to combat the inevitable problems of the real world.  For more information, call (708) 802-1830 or (800) 470-2230.  Your call is confidential and will not be subject to third party discussion.

The next local Retrouvaille weekend is held November 29 - December 2, 2012 in St. Charles, Illinois.  Call for additional dates or weekend locations or visit www.retrouvaille.org.

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